Quotes about Jeremiah
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
— Jeremiah 9:2
Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
— Jeremiah 9:9
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
— Jeremiah 9:11
Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
— Jeremiah 9:12
And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
— Jeremiah 9:13
Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
— Jeremiah 9:20
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
— Jeremiah 9:21
Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
— Jeremiah 10:1
This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
— Jeremiah 10:2
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
— Jeremiah 10:3
Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
— Jeremiah 10:5
There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
— Jeremiah 10:6